Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

Over the past few decades, due to the emerging compactness of cities considering the increase in population, and consequently the increasing demand for fast mobility, many streets have lost their human dimension. They have been transformed into fast roads, giving priority to vehicles, and reducing the rights of pedestrians. This transformation has affected streets in terms of planning, design, function, and scale. The paper argues that remaking cities’ urban streets as human-based places seeks to achieve a better balance between urbanism, people, nature, and culture, thereby improving their urban life in general. Through a literature review, this article chronologically investigates the principles, concepts, characteristics, and considerations of human-based places. Moving from theory to practice, the paper adopts a critical analysis method to measure the success of selected precedents that manifest urban streets as human-based places. And finally, through a critical discussion, it proposes a theoretical framework to maintain or regain the human dimension in urban streets. Through the developed theoretical framework, the paper reveals that a multidimensional intervention approach, including tangible and intangible design considerations should be adopted to develop human-based places.

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